Custom Blood Magic: Ritual
Some chronicles allow for their players to develop customized powers for their characters. The following is a compilation of player created custom content in OWBN. At this time, custom content that is created and/or used by vampire PC's is required to be listed.
Material Components: A piece of the target room's wall, ceiling or floor no bigger than a Quarter.
Target: Room
Casting Time: 15 Minutes
Level: Int
Mechanics: Mental challenge diff 12 retest Architecture.
With this ritual, the caster can make a copy of the target room's memories for a period of time. That time is determined by the number of mental traits expended upon casting, maximum of 5 minutes per Perminate Willpower of the caster. If the time being recorded is NOT from the moment the caster entered the room and back, an Additional Blood and a Willpower must be spent in order to target a specific point in time. Using this bit requires the castor to already have used Eyes of the Past on some part of the targeted time prior to casting Core Memory Back-up
If successful, this ritual will store the memories of that time within the piece of the room that was chosen. It can be viewed by taking the item into the room the memory was taken from by using Eyes of the Past. It will ignore the time restriction and other additional casting costs of Eyes of the Past if the target is the stored core memory.
As Per "Setite Customs" Packet
By sacrificing a human under a new moon and performing this ritual over their severed head, the caster is able to craft a talisman in the form of a shrunken head, tzantza, from the ritual victim. The crafter of this talisman can use it to ward off the blood magics of other cainites.
When the crafter of this talisman is the target of a blood magic path or ritual, they can spend a willpower to activate the talisman before any challenges are made. The crafter may make a single retest on any challenge to resist the magical effect. Once you invoke this retest, it is the last test of the challenge; no further retests are allowed. Additionally, if the crafter of this talisman successfully resists the magical effect they can attempt to store its magical energies within the talisman.
Attempting to store the magical energies requires the crafter spend a second willpower trait. They must then win a simple test, if they succeed the talisman gains an Essence charge. The talisman can hold upto five Essence charges at a time. In the future, the crafter can expend these Essence charges in place of the traits that are otherwise spent to generate effects (e.g. mental traits for Weather Control) when performing their own magic paths or rituals.
Prerequisite: Weirding Stone
By using a piece of natural lodestone the caster may befuddle the fates of the Weirding Stone. This requires the investment of one point of Blood and one temporary Willpower. Anyone or thing in contact with a Lodestone will not be able to be tracked by a Weirding Stone. it will instead begin to spin in place unable to locate the requested direction. The creator may only have a maximum amount of stones equal to his primary Ways known (min of 1). The Lodestones magical effects can be ended by the caster as a free action at any time.
Craft Spirit Bloodstone
This is a small perfectly spherical stone crafted from an opal (tourmalated opal).
System: The opal is left in a crystal bowl of vitae (three points of your own blood), which takes three evenings to absorb. This can only be cast during the full moon, and must be exposed to the moonlight during the evening. This bloodstone may then be tracked across to the umbra, and the shadowlands. Further the caster may track it from three planes interchangeably: the astral plane, the umbra, and the shadowlands.
Description: First developed as a way of testing the suitability of potential recruit families for the Tzimisce nobility, this Koldunic ritual creates over a period of 3 generations a Revenant line, but one with less power but also less mental defects than that created by the Elder level version of the Ritual.
Rumors persists that multiple Zadruga families were created using this ritual, and that when the families proved their worth, the Elder version of this ritual was cast on the families to strengthen their power and their ties to clan Tzimisce.
System: This ritual is cast identically to the Elder Create Revenant Family ritual. When used on a pair of mating adult humans, the offspring of the union will have one “in-clan” Discipline known to the caster and a blood pool of 6. When used on two first-generation mating revenants, the offspring of the union will have two “in-clan” Disciplines (either the combination of the two disciplines known to the parents, or a second discipline known to the caster if the parents have the same Discipline) and a blood pool of 8. When used on two second-generation mating revenants, the offspring of the union will have a blood pool of 8 and the same two Disciplines as the parents (if they are the same) or a Discipline from each of them, and will either gain a third Discipline known to the caster of this ritual or will gain an additional 2 blood traits, for a total blood pool of 10.
Only the Common Disciplines (Animalism, Auspex, Celerity, Dominate, Fortitude, Obfuscate, Potence, Presence) may be granted through Create Lesser Revenant Family.
The caster of this ritual may only pass on her In-Clan Disciplines (regardless of levels known) or Out-of-Clan Disciplines that she has gained Advanced mastery of. First-generation revenants must receive an in-clan Discipline of the caster.
This ritual was developed as a means of better tending to those under the protection of the Dakini and Sons of Kali. The Sadhu must spend a night in prayer within the shrine or temple that is to be blessed, invoking the favour of the god to whom it is devoted and swear to visit just vengeance upon those who have truly been wronged.
System: This ritual takes a minimum of 4 hours to perform, and may be cast by multiple sadhu at the same time. Any prayers made at a dedicated temple or shrine by a human who has truly been wronged will reach the ears of the Sadhu. The Sadhu has one lunar cycle to visit vengeance upon the guilty party - it need not be lethal, simply an appropriate punishment for the wrongs they have committed. Should the Sadhu fail in their duty, they may find themselves punished by the god they made the oath before.
By combining the mystical ability of quartz to hold information and the power of their blood, this ritual allows the thaumaturge to exactly copy all data in a storage device. The ritual is performed over a quartz crystal, which must be small enough to fit in the practitioner's hand, yet big enough to scribe symbols on (approximately the size of the thaumaturge’s fist). Once the ritual has been performed, any kindred may activate the crystal by being close enough to see the target device and spending a trait of blood. Once activated, all data inside the target device is copied exactly into the crystal.
To complete the ritual, a similar device that is capable of reading the data stored must be touched at the same time as the crystal. This must be done by the thaumaturge who cast the ritual. Thus, information on a computer’s hard drive can only be transferred to a computer, cell phone information requires a cell phone, a book requires a blank journal. Once this occurs, an exact copy of the original target device is loaded into the new device, assuming at least the same amount of space is present. If the device is a cell phone, then the new cell phone will be wiped of any original data to make room for the mystical data. The recipient hard drive will be wiped as well, though if multiple HD are present, the thaumaturge can select which one. Because an exact clone of the device is made, anything that required a password on the original device still requires a password on the new device, and any viruses are also transferred to the new device. Once the data transfer is complete, the crystal crumbles to dust. The crystal also crumbles if the target device cannot hold the data. Magical texts, formula, rituals, etc. will be copied, but rendered unusable magically. What remains will be accurate enough so that what the magical text would have done can be understood, but not precise enough for the effect to occur or to be recast without sufficient research.